this is just another infuriating thing that rogers has done for money grabbing.

Start one and post it everywhere! most entry level data plans come with 500MB which is all anyone will every need for a blackberry. I used my phone like a computer and barely reach 100MB

this is ridiculous

start a petition!

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I am a fairly heavy phone user, and used 120MB last month, out of my 500MB plan. 120MB is a whole lot of data on a mobile device with mobile optimized applications.

So, again, why can’t I use some of that remainder for tethering?

This is AN UNREASONABLE POLICY: requiring >1GB data plan to tether. And the slowness to deal with all these complaints (201 here — 201! and everywhere else) is atrocious. Please give us a good reason and/or tell us when you’re going to allow tethering on 500MB plan. Thanks.

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Joe Huber and Michael,
I’m very surprised to see anonymous comments for the side of the corporation here. Are these real people or created accounts on behalf of someone else?

We, the consumer, believe that Rogers is listening to all the compelling reasons for allowing tethering on any plan. 500MB is a lot of data for most people — tethering would allow them to use it how they like.

Thanks for listening Rogers. We’re counting the days until tethering is available for 500MB plans.

Since when is 500MB not a decent data plan? I remember when I had a 2MB plan and no one else had internet on their phone (or they paid 3c a KB). Ok that was just 3 years ago.

Let people use their data. Let them use it however they want. Let people be responsible for their actions. If they complain and that abuses your customer support resources, give them simple tools to manage their usage.

You’re not selling cigarettes. When people do that too much, they’ll probably get sick. When people go over their data allotment, they pay Rogers more money.

RogersRob & RogersMiranda — thanks for listening. This is a remarkable step and site to speak with your users in an open forum.

We all obviously strongly believe that you should allow iPhone tethering for any data plan. If you didn’t believe people cared about this, you should now with this outpouring of comments. If not, we expect a better reason than because you’re worried people will go over their allotment, because, of course, Rogers will charge the user for that.

Thanks.
@NorthGeek

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I am also firmly behind allowing customers to use whichever plan they have to tether and firmly against Rogers/Fido deciding to make tethering available only to 1GB+ plans.

This is not new. I have voiced my opinion about this several times at NorthGeek.com: http://northgeek.com/2009/09/how-to-tether-fido-iphone/

There is no technical nor billing nor any other good justification for the current cutoff.

PLEASE ALLOW ME TO TETHER WITH MY 500MB PLAN.

Thanks for listening RogersMiranda!